Buying, selling, renting, mortgages, law and tax, written so you can decide when you finish reading
There are three steps: a written demand sent by registered post, a complaint to the Office of the Consumer Protection Board on 1166, and a consumer case in court. Section 18 of the Consumer Case Procedure Act B.E. 2551 exempts consumers from all fees at filing, and a claim can be filed orally with a court officer recording it.
Feng shui does move prices, but not through the number itself. A study of nearly 117,000 US sales found addresses ending in 4 sold about 2.2 per cent below and those ending in 8 about 2.5 per cent above, but only in neighbourhoods with many residents of Chinese descent. Below 10 per cent, the difference vanished.
Thailand's PM2.5 standard is 37.5 micrograms per cubic metre over 24 hours and 15 as an annual average, in force since 1 June 2023. The WHO guideline is 15 and 5. Thai and US air quality indexes use different breakpoints, so the same air produces different AQI numbers. Compare the microgram figure instead.
Purple on a Thai city plan is industrial and warehousing land, and plum is warehousing only. Both prohibit residential subdivision and tall residential buildings, and cap other uses at ten per cent of the whole zone rather than ten per cent of your plot. Codes Or 1, Or 2 and Or 3 are redefined in each plan's own regulation.
Ror Ngor 4 is the licence to operate a class 3 factory under Thailand's Factory Act. Since 27 October 2019 a factory starts at 50 horsepower or 50 workers, up from 5 and 7, so smaller operations no longer need one. Anyone buying or renting an existing factory has 7 days to apply for the transfer.
A tenant behind on monthly rent cannot be evicted on the spot. Section 560 of the Civil and Commercial Code requires written notice giving at least 15 days to pay. Changing the locks, cutting utilities or holding the tenant's belongings is criminal trespass under Section 362, punishable by up to a year in prison or a 20,000 baht fine.
The devices that pay back in a let property are the digital lock, the leak sensor and energy measurement. Cutting power or water or locking a tenant out remotely is not allowed: the 2025 Contract Committee Announcement caps utility charges at the authority's actual rate, and terminating a lease needs at least seven days' written notice.
MEA and PEA are registering rooftop solar installers and equipment from 1 August to 30 September 2026, with documents checked to 30 October and approved names published from 15 October 2026. The government said on 5 August that a measure to support installation costs is being prepared, targeting 500,000 households in its first phase.
The standard residential fire policy covers four natural perils, windstorm, flood, earthquake and hail, up to a combined THB 20,000 per year, which is a sub-limit rather than the sum insured. Meaningful cover has to be bought as an extension, and in a condominium the split between common property and the unit has to be clear.
A sale with right of redemption transfers ownership to the buyer on the day of registration, leaving only the right to redeem. The 2019 protection Act sets the redemption period at one to ten years, caps the redemption sum at 15% a year as interest, and lets the seller stay in the property without paying consideration.
Land so surrounded that it has no way out to a public road may pass over the surrounding land under Section 1349 of the Civil and Commercial Code, on the least damaging reasonable alignment, and compensation is the rule. Where a subdivision or partial transfer created the problem, Section 1350 gives the way without compensation.
Arrears of three months or more on estate maintenance charges can cost you the use of the shared facilities, and at six months the official may suspend registration of rights over that plot until the debt is paid, under Section 50 of the Land Subdivision Act B.E. 2543. The debt is a preferential claim over the plot.
